The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is designed to increase transparency in revenue flows between oil, gas and mining companies and their host governments, in essence to monitor and publicise these revenues so that citizens can hold their governments to account for their use of the money. The goal is to use revenue transparency to help tackle poverty, conflict and corruption in what has come to be known as the “resource curse”, or the “paradox of plenty”.

EITI is a multi-stakeholder initiative involving representatives from national governments, the extractive industries, intergovernmental institutions and civil society, the first of its kind to bring together so many different stakeholders. Today, twenty-one countries have committed to implement EITI. Twenty-two companies are involved, as well as civil society, investors, donor governments and international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Read more about the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in the July edition of TI's Newsletter Transparency Watch

Read also an interview with Nigerian Minister Obiageli Ezekwesili on Nigeria's experience of adapting NEITI.

Transparency Watch, May 2006: Digging for public information in Russia. Q & A with Walter Mayr, Russia correspondent, Der Spiegel newsmagazine

National chapter press release, Riga, Latvia, 27 March 2006: NGO Congress of the Council of Europe Confirms the Right of NGOs to Work on the Political Level

Press release, Berlin, 14 November 2005: Civil society must be free of restriction, says Transparency International: Annual Meeting condemns draft legislation in Russia

With education and health on the G8 agenda, Transparency International looks at corruption in these two critical sectors.

• Review TI's thematic pages on education for anti-corruption education and corruption in the education sector.
• Review TI's thematic pages on health for corruption in the health sector, as well as the Global Corruption Report 2006 on the same issue.

Transparency International Canada
June: TI Canada issued a progress report on Canada’s adherence to the OECD Anti Bribery Convention.

Transparence-International France
June: TI-France held a conference in Paris entitled “How is the OECD ensuring its 1997 convention on the bribery of foreign officials is being followed?”, chaired by the head of OECD’s anti-corruption division Patrick Moulette.

Transparency International Deutschland (in German only)

Transparency International Italia

Transparency International Japan (in Japanese only)

Transparency International Russia (in Russian only)

Transparency International UK
March: The chapter held a meeting entitled “Extracting Transparency from the Extractive Industries”, led by Lawrence Cockcorft, chair of TI-UK. Guest speakers included David Murray, Senior Adviser to the EITI International Advisory Group, Richard Murphy, author of the recent Publish What You Pay report.

Transparency International USA
June: President of TI-US Nancy Boswell met with US ambassador Constance A Morella, US Permanent Representative to the OECD, and Faryar Shirzad, the Deputy National Adviser for International Economics, to urge US support for the OECD Convention on Bribery of Public Officals.

• The UK Government's new White Paper on International Development, 'Eliminating world poverty: Making governance work for the poor' was launched on 13 July by the Secretary of State, Hilary Benn.

G8 summit

• Opinion: G8 summit has limited effect for Russia, 18th of July, Deutsche Welle
• G8 energy statement falls short on corruption, 17 July 2006, New Nation Online Edition
• G8 summit: NGO approval tinged with dissatisfaction, 17th of July, IPS News
• G-8 Interview with Transparency International Founder : "It Won't Be Possible to Ignore Africa at Future Summits", 15 July 2006, Spiegel Online
• G8 leaders adopt document on fight against high level corruption, 16 July 2006, Ria Novosti
• Confident Putin swats away criticisms from G8 guests, 16 July 2006, Financial Times
• Russia and the G8 now that the party is over, 17 July 2006, The Moscow Times
• G8 summit adopts sweeping action plan, 17 July 2006, Voice of America
• As the G8 Summit opens, David Nussbaum, TI’s Chief Executive, speaks with BBC’s Focus on Africa on looted money and the prosecution of overseas bribery -- 15 July 2006, BBC
• 2 German journalists jailed in St. Petersburg ahead of G8, watchdog decries violence -- 14 July 2006, Mosnews
• U.S., Russia haggle for WTO deal before G8 summit – 14 July 2006, Reuters
• China's relations with G8 raise body's status – 14 July 2006, China Daily
• St. Petersburg using drastic measures to sweep up for G8 – 14 July 2006, Globe and Mail
• Dissenters aim to expose repression to G-8 leaders – 13 July 2006, Washington Times
• Thumbnails of G8 countries – 12 July 2006, Associated Press
• Putin rejects criticisms on democracy ahead of G8 – 12 July 2006, Reuters
• Putin desperate to impress, and G8 leaders come to the party – 12 July 2006, The Sunday Morning Herald
• US may sign Russian WTO deal before G8 – 11 July 2006, Reuters
• EU's Barroso calls on G8 summit leaders to agree principles on energy security – 11 July 2006, Forbes
• World Bank plea to G8 – 11 July 2006, The Standard
• G8 summit: It's really about Russia – 11 July 2006, BBC News

Energy security

• Confident Putin places energy top of leaders' priorities -- 14 July 2006, Independent
• Gas, oil fuel Russian drive for power; Kremlin sees vast stores as catapult back to influence -- 14 July, Chicago Tribune
• Keeping the lid on corruption -- 04 July 2006, The Guardian (UK)
• Nigeria: groups seek transparency certificates for extractive sector -- 04 July 2006, This Day

Civil society freedom

• The Kremlin's war against freedom -- 14 July 2006, The Times
• 'The Other Russia' Makes Itself Heard -- 12 July 2006, The Moscow Times
• Dissidents push for a different Russia -- 11 July 2006, Christian Science Monitor
• Putin burnishes image online -- 7 July 2006, The Moscow Times
• Putin says NGOs won't be crushed -- 5 July 2006, The Moscow Times